Improvement in barrel-barrows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HARDING BROWN, OF PORTERS MILLS, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARREL-BARROWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,810, dated March16, 1875; application filed February 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. BROWN, of Portel-s Mills, in the county ofEau Claire and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Barrel-Barrow, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a side view of my improved barrow adjusted for use as anordinary wheelbarrow. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, adjusted foruse as a hand barrel-barrow. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same adjustedfor use as a wheelbarrow.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved barrow forcarrying barrels and other things, which may be used as a wheelbarrow oras a hand-barrow, and which shall be simple in construction andconvenient in use.

The invention consists in the combination of the two cross-bars, thefour side bars, the handles, the pivoted hanging side bars and theadjustable braces with each other; in the combination of the wheelprovided with the sockets, and their set-screws, with the handles at oneend of the barrow-frame; in the combination of the box or body with thebarrowframe; and in the combination of the trian' gular block with thehanging side bars ot the barrow-frame, as hereinafter fully described.

A are two cross-bars, the inner edges of which are concaved to receivethe sides ot' a barrel, and the ends of which are attached to the fourside bars B near their inner ends. To the outer ends of the side bars Bare attached, or upon them are formed, handles O. The connection betweenthe cross-bars A and side bars B is strengthened by the braces D, asshown in Fig. 3. To the inner ends ot' the four side bars B are pivotedthe upper ends of four bars E. The lower ends of the two bars E uponeach side of the barrow are pivoted to each other. To the lower ends ofthe bars E, or to feet or blocks attached to said ends, are pivoted thelower ends of the four braces F. The upper ends of the braces F are bentover, are notched in their bends to receive the side bars VB, and areprovided with pins f1 to rest in notches in the upper edges ot' the saidside bars B, several notches being formed in each of said side bars toreceive the said pins, so that the barrow may be expanded or contractedto adjust it for carrying a larger or a smaller barrel, as may berequired. The bent upper ends of the braces F are provided withset-screws f2, the forward ends ot' which rest against the lower edgesof the side bars B, and thus lock said side bars and braces in placewhen adjusted. G is a triangular block which may be placed in the anglebetween the bars E, for the lower end of the barrel to rest upon, and tokeep thetwo parts of the barrow from being pressed toward each other. His a wheel, the ends of the aXle ot' which are connected with sockets Iof such a size as to receive and it upon the handles G where they aresecured in place dctachably by setscrews t, so that the said wheel H canbe conveniently attached and detached, as required. J is the body or boxofthe barrow, to the bottom of which are attached four pins to enterholes in the cross-bars A, and thus keep the said body or box J in placeupon the barrowt'rame.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patl. The combination of the two cross-bars A, the four sidebars B, the handles O, the pivoted hanging side bars E, and theadjustable braces F, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the wheel H, provided with the sockets I, andset-screws i', with the handles G at one end ot' the barrowframe,substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of the body J, with the barrow-frame A B O E F,substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination ot' the triangular block G, with the hanging sidebars E, ot' the barrow-frame A B C E F, substantially as shown anddescribed.

JAMES HARDING BROWN.

Witnesses:

J oHN J. WYATT, P. A. PRINCE.

